December 2014 Archives by thread
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Ending: Wed Dec 31 22:10:25 UTC 2014
Messages: 350
- [Ads-l] Black Friday in Rochester, NY, 1961
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] foment
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] To codge?
Ron Bryant
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ivy Leaguer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Suffix: -aissance : McConaissance, Benaissance
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] linguist to talk to reporter about place names in Maine?
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] "kick kicksey" -- a disease unknown (and not in the OED) today?
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Early use of "civil war" to refer to the American one
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Not English, but related
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] "Black Friday" -- extended uses?
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] snatch 'female pudenda'
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] joik - 1931, Yoiks/jojk/vuoleh - c. 1953
Hugo
- [Ads-l] snatch 'female pudenda' (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] perseverate
Dan Goncharoff
- [Ads-l] Get one's goat
Michael Quinion
- [Ads-l] cut the mustard
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Google spent $125 million on the scanning project; earned bupkis. Authors Guild still unhappy GB exists
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Sad suggestion for QOTY
Bonnie Taylor-Blake
- [Ads-l] Post on Facebook, go directly to jail
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Newspaperarchive.com (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Facebook comment
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] hi-tech?
Mark Mandel
- [Ads-l] "flux" = "to bleed" and OED2 -- sense absent?
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Bitcoin and dictionaries
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Everything is dirty
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Nudist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bikini"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Fwd: Readex/AAS Enlarge Early American Newspapers with Series 11
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Karate"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Seen: "I'm saddened to say. "
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] When God plays the organ, even God comes to Mass
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "Tell me and I'll forget."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Query about dialectal "warsh" (wash)
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] dirt-dive; hot-wash
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Trivial obs. re "cow" > "cowl" in BE.
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Is it just me?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Shouldn't this be "secret"?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Quotations of the Year List Published
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Desegregation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Desegregate"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] safe
Victor Steinbok
- [Ads-l] "Don't hate. Appreciate!"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] QOTY: Addendum
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] 'Cohortium'
Geoffrey Steven Nathan
- [Ads-l] Postliminary
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] old-time stress in "hot dog," pronun. of "Haiti."
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] inplausible
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] New to me: "particracy"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] New to me: "canned hunt(ing)"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] "Learn how we _age-verify_!" [NT]
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "g'day" (1901)
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Is it *still* just me?
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Jonathan Swift and his opinion concerning onyons
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] "smoke NP over"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Facebook: "It's only common since!"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Adidas -- All Day I dream about . . . (UNCLASSIFIED)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] desirous
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] pronunciation of "onion"
Joan H. Hall
- [Ads-l] Reimagining Dictionaries for the Digital Age
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lexicographer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New proverb
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] belfie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Pink Sneaker Stripes? (Pinked?)
Guy Letourneau
- [Ads-l] call out sick
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "un-PC" (1989)
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Misused "but"?
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Higgly-piggly
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Near collision in Beltic
W Brewer
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Brassiere"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Sioux Chef Wants to Bring Pre-Colonial Cuisine to the People
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] Sioux Chef Wants to Bring Pre-Colonial Cuisine to the People (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] Higgly-piggly (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill CIV (US)
- [Ads-l] "EIT' as EOTY candidate?
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] "hero"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "emoji"?
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Give to Epilespy
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Scrooge McDuck and the Dutch word of the year for 2014
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cigarette"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ampersand"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boomerang"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Postids
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "kookaburra"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] go full bull
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "koala"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Interdating of "wombat"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "bunyip"
Hugo
- [Ads-l] Megan Melancon Parrish
Grant Barrett
- [Ads-l] Generic Washlets
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Noah Webster's Word of the Year for 1828 was 'torture' too.
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jackpot"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Federalist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Lobbyist"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Founding Fathers" by Barry Popik
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] From a post to Slash-Dot: "sure-file"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Screwball Comedy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Starvation"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Word: Snaketivity
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating Bloch quote
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] Panic Saturday
Bill Mullins
- [Ads-l] eggcorn
Charles C Doyle
- [Ads-l] "Icetastrophe" - Least Useful Word of the Year?
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] OT: Afrikaans "Bollemakiesie"
Cohen, Gerald Leonard
- [Ads-l] Velada - 1887, drug meaning - 1974
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "cars" = "cause"
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Natural Selection"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "macocracy", 1780 & 1781, not in OED3
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] "Downsight"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Crustaceans
victor steinbok
- [Ads-l] "neatist", noun and attributive; not in OED3
Joel S. Berson
- [Ads-l] Turtle on a Fencepost(1979)-antedating to 1976
sclements at NEO.RR.COM
- [Ads-l] Doenjang - 1960/1970/1979
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] "Neatist"
Yagoda, Ben
- [Ads-l] Possible WOTY Candidate: Sugar/Sugaring
Baker, John
- [Ads-l] I spy with my little eye...
Laurence Horn
- [Ads-l] Job-seekers take note: "Crude Resumes Fall."
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Babe Ruth Quote (UNCLASSIFIED)
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Dim sum stress
Benjamin Barrett
- [Ads-l] Addcting Info headline:
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] Heard: "bug juice"
Wilson Gray
- [Ads-l] 2015's Word of the Year is "autocorrect"
Baron, Dennis E
- [Ads-l] multicrash blossom
Jonathan Lighter
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